Do you ever just want to quit your job?

In general I like working. I like my job but not my company and particularly the egos and politics.

Yesterday I got some annoying politic-related news, and now I'm just so demotivated. I just don't want to do this any more.

But I have to support my family and I carry the health insurance and blah blah blah. So I won't quit.

I just realized that after working here for almost 2 years, I don't have any "work friends." I'd like to go to someone's office right now and vent about this, but there is no one I know well enough and trust to do that. I was at my previous company for 12 years and knew everyone and there was always someone around who would go grab a cup of coffee when you needed to talk. Not so much here.

I can vent to my husband but he doesn't know all the people and personalities; sometimes you just need to talk to someone on the inside who really gets it, you know?

But since that's not happening, I'll post it here and listen to all of you vent about your jobs instead.

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I'm just tired of the stress and pressure of being the breadwinner who pays all the bills and carries the health insurance. I'd love to take a break and not have to feel terrified all the time of losing my job. Being a mom is hard enough without that extra pressure.

I texted DH (dear husband) a couple weeks ago saying I really wanted to walk out and never come back. Usually I like my job, its easy work for the money I make, I dislike working 6 days a week but that's my biggest complaint. But that day my boss emailed me to complete a big project by closing time, that he should have been working on for almost 2 months. I didn't understand what needed done and was frustrated, confused and pissed that he was sluffing the project off on me last minute.

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All the time. Breadwinner here also and carry the health insurance, etc. DH (dear husband) and I were actually thinking about just dropping everything, finding a job in Montana, Colorado or Wyoming and just go. Spend the next 5 years there until LO (little one) goes to school and move back towards our families.

Problem is we have 3 pit bulls and LO (little one) (8mos). It's just not that easy.

Before LO (little one) and my current job that I've been at for 7.5yrs, we used to love change and moved around often for no reason. Why do we have to adult?

UGH YES! This place isn't near as soul sucking and toxic as my last office, but it's still annoying and sometimes shitty. Like my boss telling me on Monday after a meeting "I don't want you shoving your ideas down their throats!" about a project to which I'm assigned. HEY FUCKER! My job *IS* to shove my ideas down their throats because they have no idea how this shit works!

It's still just stresses me out being the breadwinner and carrying the insurance. I really want like a month off to get my shit together, put it in a backpack and sell it at the shit store.

I feel like this sometimes. Not that I want to quit, because I wouldn't, but the office politics. I started at my previous employer when I was 23, most of the individuals in my department were young, single, childless, so I had a lot of friends at work who I could trust and open up to. This employer is more of a commuter type place. And I don't have many truly personal friends. And I have zero that I spend time with outside of work. So it's difficult to handle situations which would typically result in "venting" to someone. So, I get you, OP!

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